Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-19
STRAY BITS.

Ruby I. Paradise is the name of a postmas- ter at Concordia, Kan.
 A single day of heavy fog makes the city of London pay ,OOO more for gas.
 The Russian government is pushing rail- road across Siberia with great energy.
 The United States sends 1000, 900 barrels of apples every year to foreign countries.
 Fifteen young Moors from Morocco have gone to Italy to study in the military colleges.
 A German tourist has just encircled the globe at a cost of e1SO, and the voyage took 1855 days.
 A social philosopher foresees the day when the primary school desk will be supplied with typewriters instead of writing books.
 Sir John Lubbock, in his lecture on 'Savages," says that the negroes never kissed until they were taught by the white people,
 Queen Victoria is going to institute an order of literary merit, consisting g of twenty knights, fifty knights champions and lOO champions.
 China has at the present time ], 300 tenn ples to the honor of Confucous, at which 62 600 pigs, rabbits, sheep and deer, and 27, ,OOO pieces of silk are offered annually.
 The largest electric light in the world is ill the lighthouse at Sydney, Australia. It has the power of 180,OOO candles, and can be seen at sea fifty miles distant. Americas largest light, 24 900 candle power, is at San Jose, Cal
 A butter dealer recently sold a quantity or bad butter at a residence in Indianapolis. When he next returned he was invited in. He entered and seized by the inmates, stripped of all his clothing, and buttered from head to foot with his rancid wares.
 The petrifed remains of huge monster have been discovered near Knoxville, Iowa. The body was between fifty and sixty feet long, with head almost four feet long and two and half feet wide, with four eyes. The sockets of the eyes are eight inches in diameter
 A manufacturer in New York state is en- gagged in drafting a design for car to be made entirely of wood pulp. It will be light, cheap and indestructable by fire or collision If it should be thrown off the track it would simply bound into the air and settle down into it's place.
 Sebastian Muller, Swiss, lately arrived in New Haven, Conn.,, is astonishing the Yankees with his feats of strength. He is 25 years old, 5 feet inches tall, weighs a pound and a half less than 200. is magnlh- 1 gently developed as to muscle, anC can DIoak | six-inch cobble stone with one blow of his fist
 Of the 1,4O6 students of Michigan univer- sity, it is stated by President Angel that the parents of 5O2 were farmers; I'll merchants; 93 lawyers; S3 physicians; 52 2manufacturers; 54 mechanics, and 51 clergymen. He esti- mates that as many as 45 per cent. belonged to tho class who gained their living by manual toll.
 Kangaroo leather has become so decidedly popular for shoes that 6,0O0 skins arc re- cieved and tanned in Newark, N. J., alone each week. But that means most of the skins used, for they are sent all over the world from the Jersey tanneries. One result is that kangaroo hunters in Australia are making money. They get 70 cents pound for skins, and some of them clear from $2, ,OOC to $5,O0O @ year.
 A San Francisco justice of the peace for mulated an oath for Chinese witness like the following: "I swear by the Chinese gods, foreigners god, the God of heaven and earth, that if I am a liar in this case my head will be cut off the same as this chickens head Is cut off, and that will be drowned in the ocean and never get back to China," and while repeating the oath the Chinaman held a cleaver in his hand, with which he severed chickens head from the body when he finished the worlds